Why is knowing the atomic structure of molecules useful? Learn why, and how information like this about protein structure is shared through a publicly available database.

Every person has two copies of the hemoglobin gene. Usually, both genes make a normal hemoglobin protein. When someone inherits two mutant copies of the hemoglobin gene, the abnormal form of the ...

Each gene within that cell has a coding region. This region encodes the information used to make a particular protein, such as the hemoglobin in the red blood cells seen here. (Hemoglobin shuttles ...